Chevron

Chevron is an American multinational energy corporation that was founded on 10 September 1879 as the "Pacific Coast Oil Company" of Los Angeles, California. The company was one of the successors of Standard Oil, and it was engaged in every aspect of the oil, natural gas, and geothermal energy industries. Chevron was one of the "Seven Sisters" that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s, and it mostly operated on the West Coast of the United States, the Gulf Coast, Southeast Asia, South Korea, Australia, and South Africa. In 2014, Chevron ranked third in the Fortune 500 list of the top US closely held and public corporations and sixteenth on the Fortune 500 list of the top 500 corporations worldwide. In 2016, it employed 61,500 people and had a revenue of $114,472,000,000.